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The UN and its partners continue to scale up cross-border aid operations from Turkey into northwest Syria in the aftermath of massive earthquakes, said a UN spokesman.Ten trucks carrying shelter and other items from the International ...

The Solomon Islands Financial Intelligence Unit (SIFIU) is upgrading its capability to counter corruption and money laundering through an attachment programme to Papua New Guinea’s Financial Analysis & Supervision Unit (FASU).

Banana trees are typically cut down by farmers after one harvest because they die after fruiting. The rest of the tree aside from the fruit that gets cut down becomes a pile of waste that typically goes unused for any purpose.

ISLAMABAD: UNDP had issued a damning report on Pakistan in April 2021 revealing that the economic privileges accorded to the Pakistani elite consume $17.4 billion of the country’s economy but...

Eighty-three Cambodian peacekeepers from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit 98 of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) departed on their mission to the Central African Republic (CAR) on February 21, with a senior UN official praising it as the first unit from the Kingdom led by a woman commander.

Doha meet stresses rights-based action on climate change

RIYADH: One of the UN’s leading voices on humanitarian affairs and development is visiting Saudi Arabia for the first time to speak at a specialist event in Riyadh. Achim Steiner, a Brazilian environmentalist and the UN Development Programme’s Administrator, will participate in this week’s International Humanitarian Forum. He will use his speech to go over the organization’s

UNCTAD published the first Pacific edition of its Digital Economy Report on 16 February. It’s the first in-depth research report on the digital economy in the Pacific, examining opportunities and challenges of digital transformation in the region. Digital technologies and e-commerce have the potential to transform livelihoods in the Pacific by enhancing trade across sectors and industries.

Quarrying is not a prominent feature impacting the nation or the day-to-day goings-on of Trinbagonians, many of the comforts and lamentations that we experience tie into the sector

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